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  • COMMON NAME: Wild drumstick tree, Yashar, Baan, Terfaal
  • ARABIC: الشوع
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori
  • SYNONYMS: M. aptera Geartn
  • FAMILY: MORINGACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Ajman , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Landscape (L) Fruits (F) Apiculture (A) Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production. the seed oil contains almost all the fatty acids that are also found in olive oil Moringa wood is reported to be resistant to termites and therefore popular as building material. Moringa can be grown at Sealevel in gardens when it is regularly watered. The Sharjah desert Parks Wildflower Gardens have some flourishing specimens, with abundant foliage that persist throughout the flowering period.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. Vyacheslav V. Byalt, Mikhail V. Korshunov and Vladimir M. Korshunov. 2020. The Fujairah Scientific Herbarium – a new herbarium in the United Arab Emirates. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Moderately salt tolerant, ornamental plant with several known medicinal uses in the region. Oil extracted from seeds used to treat headaches, fever, muscle pains, burns, abdominal pain and constipation. Mixed with clove and cardamom oil used during labour as a drink. Extract of leaves rubbed on skin rash. Used for home construction and fires, and its leaves consumed as food and livestock feed. Honey nectar plants.

A small tree, 2-5 meters high, with numerous branches and willowy appearance. Leaves few, or often destitute, those when present consisting of 3- pairs, rush-like, with short petiolulate, oblong, obtuse leaflets. Flowers pedicelled, 1 cm in diameter, usually appear on the tree before leafting. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, reflexed, unequal, petaloid, 0.4-0.8 cm long. Petals 5, unequal, white, tinged with purple near center 0.6-1.0 cm long. Fertile filaments hairy at the base. Ovary 1-called, style slender, declined, 0.3-0.5 cm long; ovules many. Pod 15-35 cm long, pendulous with 3 rounded angles and 6-grooves. Seeds angled, nut-like, white and rich in oil. Flowering from February to April.  

mountains and wadis among rocks.
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